"What, can't you see I'm busy here?" west-coast fan Michael captions this photo he emailed the other day to warm our ailurophilic heart.
"Has a cat been born who didn’t, sometimes, find the toilet paper roller an irresistible toy?" emails reader Michael:
The ensuing mess is not a bug, it’s a feature.
Molly, the kitty/sculptress of our seafaring days aboard the yacht Dove in the seventies and eighties, put up with a lot. Above, suspended catnip mouse (inset) temporarily distracts from her horror at being stuck in the foreward cabin on a tether.
Exactly. As we emailed Michael back,
Tiny and Baby don't seem to be into toilet paper, but my cat Molly [above] of years ago was into it big time. You correctly identify "the ensuing mess" as not a bug but a feature. In Molly's case, she was an artist, and "the ensuing mess," sculpture.
"For Lair’s 'Kitty Movie Monday' I shot some mov’s of Ritzi and present my favorite, still silent tho," writes Mog re her latest motion picture, available here.
No one ever said the artistic life was going to be easy. Silents or talkies, Garbo -- the Swedish Sphinx -- said it all:
If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is.
Check out the switching of American Sphinx Ritzi's tail in her own silent film for very much the same sentiment expressed through body language by the star of Mog's blockbuster.
Outstanding !
what a big smile this post has produced...
thank you...
Posted by: HNAV | May 09, 2006 at 02:16 PM
I'm glad you liked my silent movie, now if the cats only were silent. They do make it easy, adorable little beasties.
Posted by: mog | May 10, 2006 at 07:36 PM
The only thing more fun than unrolling the toilet paper is disemboweling or perhaps the word is "distressing" a fresh roll of paper towels.
Posted by: amba | May 10, 2006 at 11:57 PM